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Political Prisoner Biography Presentation

Overview
This activity encourages participants to assess online information on one personality; analyze and organize the gathered info for relevance; synthesize a written report on the chosen personality; deliver their reports in costume representing their chosen personality to the class.
Time
Multi-day
Intended Audience
High School or College Seminar
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Ulysses’ Vow

Overview
This activity encourages participants to consider how the transfer of ideas throughout time, space, and in various contexts informs their enduring value.
Time
1/2 Day
Intended Audience
High School or College Seminar
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International Law and Political Prisoners

Overview
This activity puts the prison system and political prisoners into a broader international context through the addition of international law as a basis for the resistance to the oppression of US prisons.
Time
1 Day
Intended Audience
High School or College Seminar
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Power to the People / Flowers for George

Overview
This activity encourages participants to develop their visual analysis skills to interpret art, graphics, and other forms of visual communication.
Time
1/2 Day
Intended Audience
High School or College Seminar.
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Prisoner Unity and Organizing

Overview
This activity encourages participants to connect historic prison struggles with the present while engaging a variety of media formats.
Time
1/2 Day
Intended Audience
High School or College Seminar
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99 Books

Overview
This activity encourages participants to research and engage books from George Jackson’s library and think about transformative items in ones’ life.
Time
1/2 Day
Intended Audience
High School or College Seminar
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Families and Incarceration

Overview
This activity encourages participants to familiarize themselves with the impacts of mass incarceration on families and communities
Time
1/2 Day
Intended Audience
High School or College Seminar
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For Comrade / For George Jackson

Overview
This activity encourages participants to utilize comparative analysis methods and articulate their own political ideas through creative or artistic means.
Time
1/2 Day
Intended Audience
High School or College Seminar
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Advocacy Day 1

Overview
This activity is designed to help participants recognize advertising propaganda techniques.
Time
1 Day
Intended Audience
High School or College Seminar
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Advocacy Day 2

Overview
This activity encourages participants to work cooperatively in small groups; apply one of several propaganda techniques into a visual presentation; create a poster graphically representing their message to a target audience.
Time
1 Day
Intended Audience
High School or College Seminar
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Advocacy Day 3

Overview
This activity is designed to help students identify and analyze propaganda techniques.
Time
1 Day
Intended Audience
High School or College Seminar
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